Nikola Tesla Quotes

What I tend to do is to wake about five in the morning-this happens quite often-think about the invention, and then image it in my mind in 3D, as a kind of construct. Then I do experiments with the image...sort of rotate it, and say, 'Well what'll happen if one does this?' And by the time I get up for breakfast I can usually go to the bench and make a string and sealing wax model that works straight off, because I've done most of the experiments already.

You always start with a fantasy. Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back from the fantasy to reality, hacking away at the components.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

Prototyping is the conversation you have with your ideas.

I can't really say - if I've run out of ideas until I've had my next set of ideas.

Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.

Imagination decides everything.

To invent is to discern, to choose.

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

My training and my inclination is to invent.

I'm wary of the word 'inventing,' because in the British psyche the word 'inventor' is immediately linked with 'mad'. For me, inventing is problem-solving.

Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.

We should have more invention.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

Ideas are the root of creation.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

I'm wondering how people are so creative, and how many things were born out of and inspired by the Cube.

One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it.

We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.

A lot of times, you think of things as being science fiction, but the creation of the ideas makes you want to solve them. Then, in solving them, they give us greater capability.